Dashboard for Irrigation Efficiency Management (DIEM)

摘要

In areas with limited irrigation capacity and irregular seasonal rainfall, methods to efficiently distribute available irrigations are challenging due to the inability to control soil profile water levels at times of critical crop water needs, the environmental effects on irrigation distributions, and changes in irrigation capacity within a growing season. The Dashboard for Irrigation Efficiency Management (DIEM) was developed to help make irrigation decisions in the short-season, semi-arid environment of the Texas High Plains where irrigation capacities from the Og a I la I a Aquifer are rapidly decreasing and cotton is the predominant row crop. DIEM is a web-based software solution for forecasting optimized field-specific irrigation schedules based on water availability. This is accomplished by configuring basic historic, near real-time, and future agronomic information including weather, soil and crop characteristics, and irrigation parameters into an interactive data visualization for portraying key aspects supporting irrigation decisions. The public beta-version of DIEM is available at https://diem. tamu. edu.